Colombian Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's only novel, One Hundred Years
of Solitude, was a seismic literary event in Latin America when first
published in 1967. Translated three years later, it received awestruck
notices in the U.S., and has continued to attract not so much readers
as proselytizers. The chronicle of an enchanted town called Macondo, it
is a "good read" in the Dickensian sense: it has abundant life, a
tangle of characters and plots, all supported by a clear moral...